There has to be a limit on how many lofts you can put downtown and expect to be filled. I walked around for a while after I went to the library and saw that most of the buildings that I remember as vacant from the late nineties now converted to apartments. I also took a spin through the new Ralphs at 9th and Flower.
The Medallion will be facing Los Angeles Street, so the gentrification effort is apparently moving eastward. I believe the Westminster was torn down in the early 60s, so that parking lot has been there for a long time.
What happened to the zoom function? I wish I could zero in on the next block in this 1932 photo. The Rex/Lux would have been on the left and the Tunnel on the right, assuming the Tunnel was still around by then. http://tinyurl.com/27bq8x
I see where the Lux is now, after looking at the 1965 photo. It’s on the northeast corner of Figueroa and Third, just before the 110 onramp. I thought it was after the freeway. There is a large apartment complex on that corner now.
No, I took pictures of the Wesley Little in June. There wasn’t anything further east that looked like a theater. What was interesting was a building at the intersection of Vernon and I believe Avalon, a few blocks west. It’s now an AT&T building, but it looks to me like it was an immense theater at one time. I would be curious to know that was.
The Wesley Little theater was in the same block, on the same side of the street, but that theater opened in 1942. The Movie Show might have been long gone by then.
So if the Lux at 827 W. Third was after the tunnel and close to the Beaudry intersection, then presumably 712 West would be before the tunnel, per your USC photo above. I imagine they just pick up where they left off with the street numbers once you get through the tunnel.
You’re right. An incorrect assumption on my part based on faulty photo review. Apologies.
Here are three photos from the LA Library dated 1987, 1938 and 1925, respectively. The last shows the Granada in place of the Fox:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics43/00041301.jpg
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics20/00019999.jpg
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics01/00020001.jpg
It looks like the church is moving out. The building is for sale.
There has to be a limit on how many lofts you can put downtown and expect to be filled. I walked around for a while after I went to the library and saw that most of the buildings that I remember as vacant from the late nineties now converted to apartments. I also took a spin through the new Ralphs at 9th and Flower.
Does it say “Everything Not Over a Dollar” on the marquee? I didn’t see that before. That’s a bit of a syntactical problem, I think.
The Medallion will be facing Los Angeles Street, so the gentrification effort is apparently moving eastward. I believe the Westminster was torn down in the early 60s, so that parking lot has been there for a long time.
Joe, any idea if that’s the theater building? There aren’t any photos of the theater in existence, as far as I know.
Here are some photos from August 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/2gd42h
http://tinyurl.com/25bd2l
http://tinyurl.com/29hwpy
http://tinyurl.com/2d5ez2
http://tinyurl.com/yuu3sq
http://tinyurl.com/22bx8v
http://tinyurl.com/2z873g
http://tinyurl.com/2gy8tu
http://tinyurl.com/2gc6wz
http://tinyurl.com/2y9bs3
Here are some photos from August 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/2o9o5m
http://tinyurl.com/337lyj
http://tinyurl.com/2lsg8b
http://tinyurl.com/2ksmxe
http://tinyurl.com/2ujkmp
http://tinyurl.com/2n2k7x
http://tinyurl.com/2t8sc7
http://tinyurl.com/2k6ps5
http://tinyurl.com/36ln6r
http://tinyurl.com/32md86
Here are some photos from August 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/3xlrmd
http://tinyurl.com/39gkfn
http://tinyurl.com/352o2z
http://tinyurl.com/37gvwt
http://tinyurl.com/399aov
http://tinyurl.com/2vm66j
http://tinyurl.com/3332jo
http://tinyurl.com/2pfvyc
http://tinyurl.com/2qqnbu
This is the building at the location today. I’m not sure if this is the theater or a replacement:
http://tinyurl.com/386a6l
http://tinyurl.com/399pqe
http://tinyurl.com/38xckb
http://tinyurl.com/32ye5t
The Inglewood Theater was listed at 142 N. Market in the mid seventies, per the LA Times adult film ads. Here are two photos of the location today:
http://tinyurl.com/36kb2c
http://tinyurl.com/365oks
Here are some photos from August 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/24dmdw
http://tinyurl.com/2dubcz
http://tinyurl.com/yvtaey
http://tinyurl.com/2b8qof
http://tinyurl.com/2x72oj
http://tinyurl.com/yrxrjc
http://tinyurl.com/2y8o5e
http://tinyurl.com/2h5uww
http://tinyurl.com/ytrrp9
http://tinyurl.com/ypshql
Here is a photo from the USC archive, circa 1930:
http://tinyurl.com/27fgfv
Here are two photos from the USC archive:
http://tinyurl.com/2xjxyx
http://tinyurl.com/22pv7j
What happened to the zoom function? I wish I could zero in on the next block in this 1932 photo. The Rex/Lux would have been on the left and the Tunnel on the right, assuming the Tunnel was still around by then.
http://tinyurl.com/27bq8x
I see where the Lux is now, after looking at the 1965 photo. It’s on the northeast corner of Figueroa and Third, just before the 110 onramp. I thought it was after the freeway. There is a large apartment complex on that corner now.
So you’re living in Iowa and someone from LA calls you and says “Buy my theater for $20,000”. How does that work?
The Rex is listed as the Lux on CT.
No, I took pictures of the Wesley Little in June. There wasn’t anything further east that looked like a theater. What was interesting was a building at the intersection of Vernon and I believe Avalon, a few blocks west. It’s now an AT&T building, but it looks to me like it was an immense theater at one time. I would be curious to know that was.
The Wesley Little theater was in the same block, on the same side of the street, but that theater opened in 1942. The Movie Show might have been long gone by then.
By the way, Joe, you forgot the Anita as an aka for the Lux.
So if the Lux at 827 W. Third was after the tunnel and close to the Beaudry intersection, then presumably 712 West would be before the tunnel, per your USC photo above. I imagine they just pick up where they left off with the street numbers once you get through the tunnel.
Listed as the Alpine in the 1938 city directory. Address was 834 Alpine.
I don’t think it’s listed. Is that one also called the Florencita?